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The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Is Ryan Poles handling the rebuild well?

The Charter: A Chicago Bears Podcast

Chicago Sports Network

Football, Sports, Sports:football

4.4699 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Poles and the Bears are in full rebuild mode but are fans satisfied by how it's going so far? Is Ryan Poles taking the right approach? Ken Davis and Josh Schrock discuss their thoughts on how the rebuild is going so far, why the Bears traded for WR N'Keal Harry, the history of tanking in the Bears organization, and is tanking the right approach with a potential franchise QB already under contract?(1:17) - Reasons why the N'Keal Harry trade fits with the philosophy of Ryan Poles(8:48) - Ryan Poles is looking to run the football and picked receivers who can run block(17:10) - Have the Bears intentionally tanked in their history?(20:30) - Are the Bears putting Justin Fields at risk with this rebuild?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:08.7

Visit xxu.edu to start plotting your path to a brighter tomorrow.

0:13.8

St. Xavierambia University.

0:31.6

I'm always fortunate enough to be joined by our Bears insider Josh Shrock, follow him at Shrock underscore and underscore awe.

0:38.3

Tony Gill is running the show.

0:39.8

Alex Shapiro is enjoying his life.

0:42.9

You guys will see him in studio this week.

0:46.3

And I'm Kenneth Davis.

0:48.0

Look, we talked to Kyrie Thompson of W.E.E.I.

0:52.9

Last week about the Nikiel Harry Trade, but we didn't give

0:57.7

our thoughts about the trade. So definitely I want to find out what Josh, what you think about

1:03.4

the trade. Also, Josh has a pretty good article out right now. It's titled, Why Harry Trade is

1:09.3

evidence that the bears are taking the right approach to the rebuild.

1:12.1

So matter of fact, let's start off with that.

1:14.4

Why you believe the Nikiel Harry trade is the proper approach going along the lines of what the bears have told us they're trying to do at the beginning of this rebuild.

1:23.9

Yeah, I mean, to me, the trade itself, I mean, it doesn't really have a lot to do with getting Nikil Harry.

1:27.3

I just think the move itself is an example of patience, the patience you kind of want to see in a team that has a lot to figure out, right?

1:34.8

This whole season's just going to be a tryout for most? And I think it's much for a long-term rebuild it, it shows patience from

1:49.0

Ryan Poles and Mattieu's to say, yeah, we understand we have massive holes at wide receiver,

1:53.2

but we're just going to trade this 2024, seventh round pick for a guy who in theory is for second round talent. He's a big body who can, you know, let's say it kind of works out and he, you know,

2:05.4

he plays decently. He can give you maybe 60% of what you wanted Alan Robinson to give

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